Crackdown 3 Review Thread - MC: 60 OC: 62

[Mr Puggsly]

Pemalite said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Nintendo has the most success when it comes to moving hardware with exclusives. I mean we've seen their consoles thrive with relatively weak 3rd party software.

PlayStation and Xbox on the other hand rely on massive library of notable 3rd party games. Nintendo certainly doesn't rely 3rd party marketing deals and bundles like others.

In saying that though... Halo put Xbox on the map... And Halo 3 helped sell consoles, but they weren't launch games.

But Nintendo has been extremely successful in moving hardware using software, it's what has essentially kept them relevant, which is a good thing... And hopefully they don't stop doing it.

Certainly, Halo was a killer app of the time. But I guess something that has changed is we get notable games on a regular basis these days. I mean many of us have massive backlogs because there is so much stuff that seems worth playing. 6th gen and prior wasn't exactly like that in my opinion, not to the same extent.

There was a big shift in the 7th gen where studios began pumping out notable content more often. Nowadays we get endless indie content while interesting AA or AAA games come every month.

In a nutshell, killer apps don't really exist in a era with so many notable games happening all the time. We can't even agree on a game of the year. Even I roll my eyes at GOTYs because they tend to have a huge focus on story driven content while the actual most popular games can be ignored.